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Sweeping Up Glass: A Novel
by Carolyn WallDestined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered ki... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Playing with Matches
by Carolyn WallClea Shine has grown up tough because she had to. Her mother's drinking, her husband's philandering, and the poverty of her youth have hardened her. After one betrayal too many, she packs her kids into the car and drives home - to the clapboard house of the woman who raised her, Jerusha Lovemore. Cl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Sweeping Up Glass
by Carolyn WallOlivia Harker grew up in 1930s Kentucky during a time of racial segregation and Depression. The spirited daughter of an adored father and a difficult mother, she shocked the locals by choosing the children of her black neighbours as friends and playmates. Now Olivia runs a ramshackle grocery store w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Playing with Matches
by Carolyn WallWhen I felt truly lost--which was most of the time--I went out to the narrow lot and sat down in the weeds. From there I could observe both houses. After all, I had two eyes, didn't I? Two nostrils, two arms, two knobby knees. The trouble was, I had only one heart.Growing up in False River, Mississi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Bound by Mystery: Celebrating 20 Years of Poisoned Pen Press
by Ann Parker • Kerry Greenwood • James Sallis • Priscilla Royal • Frederick Ramsay • Carolyn Wall • Mark De Castrique • Vicki Delany • David Moss • Donis Casey • Jane Finnis • Charlotte Hinger • Ann Littlewood • Tim Maleeny • Mary Reed • Eric Mayer • Jeffrey Siger • Dennis Palumbo • Tina Whittle • Reavis Z Wortham • Janet Hubbard • Triss Stein • Zoe Burke • Steven Axelrod • Catherine Winn • Warren C Easley • J C Lane • J M Donellan • David P Wagner • Diane D. Dibiase • Kelly Garrett • Laurie R King • M Dobson • Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel • Vasudev MurthyIn celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood with her Phryne Fisher mysteries, now also a popular television pro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Claiming Your Self-Esteem: A Guide Out of Codependency, Addiction and Other Useless Habits
Through discussions of the dynamics of self-esteem, stories of successful life transformations, and powerful exercises that really work, psychotherapist and teacher Carolyn Ball shows that when we learn to love and respect ourselves, we can live the kind of happy and creative lives we have always wa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1990 -
Networks, New Governance and Education
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance. This timely book from bestse... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Edu.net: Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility
Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive data resulting from a Leverhulme Trust research study focused on Africa, and a study funded by the British Academy focused on India, which explored the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Recent Metaheuristic Computation Schemes in Engineering (Studies in Computational Intelligence #948)
This book includes two objectives. The first goal is to present advances and developments which have proved to be effective in their application to several complex problems. The second objective is to present the performance comparison of various metaheuristic techniques when they face complex optim... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Research through Play: Participatory Methods in Early Childhood
by Jane Murray • Elaine Hall • Marilyn Fleer • Cathy Nutbrown • Elizabeth Wood • Kate Wall • Ioanna Palaiologou • Sue Dockett • Alma Fleet • Lorna Arnott • Liz Chesworth • Jane Merewether • Loreain Martinez-Lejarreta • Caralyn Blaisdell • Ludgate Shannon • Pauline Duncan • Timothy J. McGowan • Jonathan Delafield-Butt • Elisabetta Biffi • Franca Zuccoli • Pekka Mertala • Heidi Sairanen • TrÍona Stokes • Maddie BroadDoing research with young children can be challenging for many reasons, but this book provides clear guidance on how to engage in appropriate methods. Focusing on researching through play, careful consideration is given to: · the founding principles of playful research · understand... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Research through Play: Participatory Methods in Early Childhood
by Jane Murray • Elaine Hall • Marilyn Fleer • Cathy Nutbrown • Elizabeth Wood • Kate Wall • Ioanna Palaiologou • Sue Dockett • Alma Fleet • Lorna Arnott • Liz Chesworth • Jane Merewether • Loreain Martinez-Lejarreta • Caralyn Blaisdell • Ludgate Shannon • Pauline Duncan • Timothy J. McGowan • Jonathan Delafield-Butt • Elisabetta Biffi • Franca Zuccoli • Pekka Mertala • Heidi Sairanen • TrÍona Stokes • Maddie BroadDoing research with young children can be challenging for many reasons, but this book provides clear guidance on how to engage in appropriate methods. Focusing on researching through play, careful consideration is given to: · the founding principles of playful research · understand... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée (Reconstructing America)
by Robert Levine • Mark Elliott • Almas Khan • John Ernest • Kenneth Warren • Sandra M. Gustafson • Brook Thomas • Tess Chakkalakal • Sarah E. Chinn • Jennifer Rae Greeson • Molly Ball • Christine Holbo • Gregory Laski • Nancy Bentley • Annemarie Mott Ewing • Mary Hale • DeLisa D. Hawkes • Carolyn Karcher • Alex Zweber LeslieAlbion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Fergus... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023